New Holland Codes Network

New Mission, Vision, & Web Sites

Digital learning and media technology are impacting the delivery of career development resources. There must be a convergence and synchronization of career development principles with today’s electronic media.

The Holland Codes Resource Centerhas developed a new mission, vision, and web sites.

New Mission – Provide career development and social media resources engaging, connecting with digital learners utilizing printed, web-based tools and technology

New Vision – Motivate, inspire, and empower people to have an awareness of their full potential

New Web Sites– Promote the convergence of career development and social media concepts

Collaborating with Teachers, Counselors, Career Professionals, Parents, and Students

The Career Explorers Network is a meeting place for teachers, counselors, career professionals, parents, and students that use social media and MOOCs. The network will create a collaborative environment to exchange educational and career development ideas and resources.

To connect and communicate with the Career Explorers Network, use your favorite social media tool.

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Career Values InvenTory

The O*NET Career Values Inventory helps individuals explore over 900 O*NET job titles based on their work values and motivators.

Unlike the first edition of the Values Inventory which used a card sort to explore work values, the new edition uses an easier forced-choice method.

Consisting of only 36 items and taking less than 20 minutes to complete, this method provides accurate results in less time, as well as simplifies administration and scoring.

Once individuals have identified their most important work values, the inventory guides them to match their results to potential careers organized by both values and the preparation required (using the DOL’s five “job zones”).

In depth suggestions for further research help individuals explore those careers, and a reproducible Job Information/Action Plan worksheet helps them pursue their goals.

The inventory is self-scoring and self-interpreting, takes less than thirty minutes to complete, and is based on decades of research.

Valid and reliable, this assessment is an ideal starting point for anyone engaging in career exploration.

Its incorporation of O*NET job titles also makes it highly compatible with a wide variety of occupational resources.

The O*NET is changing. The Department of Labor is revising and streamlining the Occupational Information Network to better match the rapidly changing economy. The Second Edition of the O*NET Career Values Inventory has been substantially revised.

In addition to moving from a card sort to a forced choice mechanic, it will feature streamlined instructions, an updated list of resources, an improved job information worksheet, and job titles drawn directly from the latest version of the O*NET.

Guide for Occupational Exploration Interest Inventory (GOEII)

Guide for Occupational Exploration Interest Inventory –

Has appealing graphics

Is easy-to-follow instructions

Is self-scoring

Matches your Interests to 250 Occupational Outlook Handbook and 1,000 O*NET career jobs with career salary information, career research, and career information

Is organized around 14 GOE career interest areas

Guide for Occupational Exploration Interest Inventory provides the following information from the ORIGINAL GOE System presented in the Guide for Occupational Exploration (3rd Edition):

Step 1: Start with the following “14 Interest Areas or Career Clusters” –

GOE Code 1: Arts, Entertainment, and Media

GOE Code 2: Science, Math, Engineering

GOE Code 3: Plants and Animals

GOE Code 4: Law, Law Enforcement, and Public Security

GOE Code 5: Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers

Construction, Mining and Drilling

Transportation, Distribution & Logistics

GOE Code 6: Industrial Production

GOE Code 7: Business Detail

GOE Code 8: Sales &Marketing

GOE Code 9: Recreation, Travel and Other Personal Services

GOE Code 10: Education and Social Services

GOE Code 11: General Management and Support

Medical and Health Science

Step 2: Complete Inventory.Step 3: Score profile.Step 4: Use the “14 Interest Areas or Career Clusters” to Explore Career Options.Step 5: Complete the Career Exploration Worksheet.Step 6: Research career options.

Reading Level: Grade 8Interest Level: Middle School-Adult

Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) assessment is the most widely used personality assessment in the world – more than 2 million assessments worldwide each year.

Reliable, valid, versatile, and dependable – Used for more than 50 years

Guide to understand individual differences

Source of understanding on how people think, communicate, and interact

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a career assessment test and a personality test. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) types are in four groups –

Extraversion / Introversion

Sensing / Intuition

Thinking / Feeling

Judging / Perceiving

The type indicates a preference.

The Extrovert prefers to focus on other people and things.

The Introvert prefers to focus on internal thoughts and ideas.

The Sensing person prefers to use the five senses to receive information.

The Intuitive person receives input from internal thinking processes.

The Thinking persons judges using logic.

The Feeling person uses affective measures to judge.

The Judging aspect of the type results in sequential step-by-step mental processing.

The Perceiving responds in a spontaneous and flexible way.

The results from the MBTI produces the 16 types –

ISTJ

ISFJ

INFJ

INTJ

ISTP

ISFP

INFP

INTP

ESTP

ESFP

ENFP

ENTP

ESTJ

ESFJ

ENFJ

ENTJ

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Career Report

The MBTI Career Report is a career exploration tool that helps you –

Identify strengths and weakness that may influence the career exploration process

Identify job families

Choose a potential career

Select a college or other form of training

Provide information necessary to evaluate a possible career transition or job shift

Develop a career plan

The MBTI Career Report has information on –

MBTI Results – Reported Type and Clarity of Reported Preferences

MBTI Types and Career Choice – preferred work environments, and action steps

DELIVERY INFORMATION:Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Career Report is an ON-LINE, Holland Code career self assessment test. When you complete your transaction, you will receive two e-mails. The first e-mail confirms payment received. The second e-mail lists the following information –

Product Title

Transaction ID

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Career Report Web Site Link

Username

Password

Our contact e-mail explorecareers@gmail.com

My Career Profile

My Career Profile Guidance System is a Holland career self assessment test that provides information on interests, values, skills, personalities, and Holland Codes.

My Career Profile Guidance System is –

Low cost – Save money.

Easy to use – Follow simple instructions.

Quick – In 20 minutes, you will have the results from the assessment.

Fast – Immediately match the results 1500 careers.

Tested, proven, and dependable – Use the database to get job earnings information

PICS Career Survey

The PICS Career Survey is a Picture Interest Test and an easy-to-do Holland Code assessment that uses 36 sets of 3 pictures as a quick way to –

Explore their career interests

Find a job that fits

The PICS Career Survey is an excellent career test for ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS and for other people –

Who are In ESL/GED programs

Who have limited reading ability

Who have limited knowledge of English

Who are developmentally delayed

Who are learning disabled

Who have special needs

Who have limited access to education

Who are chronically unemployed

The PICS Interest Test –

Takes less than fifteen minutes to complete and score

Uses pictures of people at work

Is self-administered and self-scored

To finish the Career Survey (PICS), you –

Look at 36 sets of 3 pictures.

Choose which of the three portrayed occupations seems most interesting.

Total the number and kind of pictures selected.

As bonuses, with each purchase, you receive the Career Locator and Career Planning Worksheet.

The Career Locator matches Holland Code interest areas to 600 careers. Careers are placed in one of the following groups – Careers that require Short Term On-the-Job-Training, Moderate Term On-the-Job-Training, Long Term On-the-Job-Training, Associate Degree, Bachelor’s Degree, Professional Degree, and Postsecondary Vocational Training.

On the Career Planning Worksheet, you record information about education required, projected earning, job outlook, skills, and next step.

The Holland Code inventory gives individuals a fast and informative way to explore occupations based on their interests. Using the RIASEC system developed by John Holland–the most widely used occupational interest coding system available.

Use this inventory to identify their job interests.

Complete only 72 work activity statements.

Match results those interests to potential careers.

The Holland Code inventory, a quick and easy assessment, is perfect for job seekers who have little time to spend on testing and career exploration.

Self Directed Search

The Self-Directed Search is –

Low cost – Save money.

Easy to use – Complete the career self assessment test in 30 minutes.

Tested, proven, and dependable – Used by over 22 million people worldwide.

Narrow your career options. Save time and money. Eliminate careers that do not match your personalities, interests, abilities, and skills.

Find careers that will be most satisfying, appealing, and interesting to you.

Use the Self-Directed Search to explore careers.

Self Directed Search Form R is for adults, college students, and high school students. Form R is available in PRINTED or INTERNET Versions. The New! The Occupations Finder-Revised Edition now includes occupations that have emerged as a result of technological advances (e.g., Internet). The occupations have been updated and revised, and the jobs are referenced with the Occupational Information (O*NET) database. The Occupations Finder also provides the educational development level that each occupation requires and includes an alphabetical list of the occupations. Self-Directed Search Form R Occupations Finder has a list of 1,309 occupations matched to Holland Codes.

Self Directed Search Form E is for adults and teens who need easier-to-read format.

Self Directed Search Form Career Explorer is for middle school students.

Strong Interest Inventory

For nearly 80 years, the Strong Interest Inventory assessment has guided thousands of individuals in exploring careers and college majors. The Strong Interest Inventory assessment is the most respected and widely used career planning instrument in the world.

The Strong Inventory is a professional career interest inventory that is –

Well researched and extensively validated

Used by career coaches and college counselors worldwide

The Strong Interest Inventory is an on-line Holland Code assessment that helps you identify –

Interests

Holland Codes

Careers

The results include –

Scores on the level of interest on each of the six Holland Codes or General Occupational Themes. Holland Code Themes include – Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional.

Occupational Scales – Comparison of your likes and dislikes with those people who are satisfied working in various occupations.
The Occupational Scales matches your interests to 122 occupations. Your score matched the likes and dislikes of people who are working in and are satisfied that career. The occupations are an example of a larger job cluster. The TOP TEN Occupations are the careers that most closely match your interests. Within each Holland Code Theme, you will find careers that you are Dissimilar, Midrange, or Similar to your score, likes, and dislikes.

Response Summary – Summary of the Occupations, Subject Areas, Activities, Leisure Activities, People, and Characteristics Sections. You receive information about the number of responses in each section that were Strongly Like, Like, Indifferent, Dislike, or Strong Dislike.

Transferable Skills (TS) Survey

The TS Survey is a researched and validated assessment. The TS Survey is a short assessment that identifies an individual’s strongest soft (TS) skills skills. The eight (8) soft (TS) skills Skills are:

Analytical

Numerical

Interpersonal

Organizational

Physical

Informational

Communicative

Creative skills

The benefits of the TS Survey are –

Complete in 20-25 minutes

Is easy to use

Has color-coded design

Is Self-scoring and self-interpreting

Can be used as both a career exploration guide and a job search strategy tool

Includes suggested resources for career exploration as well as a worksheet for comparing possible careers

Includes job titles from the most recent O*NET database

Can be given to groups or individuals

The TS Survey has 5 sections –

Mark Your Answers

Add Your Scores

Interpret Your Scores

Identify Occupations that Match Your Skills

Explore Occupations that Match Your Skills

Reference material for the The TS Survey lists the relationship between Soft Skills and Holland Codes.

Career planning includes self-assessment, career exploration, decision making, life role formation, goal setting, and the implementation of career choices.

A Career interest portfolio lists –

Career test results

Career interests -What you like to do

Skills – Activities that you do well

Values – Beliefs that are important to you

Favorite subjects

Favorite activities and hobbies

Career experiences: Field trips, interviews with people at work, and interactions with mentors or key resource people

Future job possibilities

A career interest portfolio helps you –

Highlight your interests, abilities, and skills

Recognize your strengths

See the relationships between extracurricular activities and career goals

Learn about world of work

Open your eyes to new job opportunities

Identify workplace skills

List your career exploration objectives

Focus on achieving the right career objectives

Set realistic achievable goals

Make educational and career plans

The career interest portfolio is an excellent aid for students. Education, learning, and training serve as the bridge between school and world of work. School is a time of transition. A career interest portfolio serves as a journal to record special activities and events.

The career interest portfolio helps students –

Increase self awareness

Expand knowledge of careers

Improve career exploration and planning skills

Develop motivation and self confidence

Career interest portfolios provide students with awesome opportunities to gain self awareness as well as to explore and understand the world of work.

A Career interest portfolio lists –

Career test results

Career interests – What you like to do

Skills – Activities that you do well

Values – Beliefs that are important to you

Favorite subjects

Favorite activities and hobbies

Career experiences: Field trips, interviews with people at work, and interactions with mentors or key resource people

Future job possibilities

A career interest portfolio provides a snap shot of the interests, abilities, and skills.

Virtual Career Portfolios

Our two career planning courses that will build a career portfolio –

Career Portfolio Tools

Test Drive Your Career Test! You Have The Keys!

The Career Portfolio Tools course is a step-by-step guide to explore careers and college majors.

Use the course to pinpoint –

Interests

Abilities

Skills

Talents

Values

Discover who you really are and understand your likes, dislikes, and interests.